While in a conversation with somebody else he casually reaches behind himself in order to gather his emerald hair and tie it into a high pony tail, revealing the back of his neck, instead of having his long strands cascade down his back and end in a low pony tail. B)
{ @diablecharmant. ♛ ━━ *
█▐ ❆ ࿐ᐤ AND GRAY KNEW he’d been staring — it wasn’t his fault, he just couldn’t help it. At this point, his composure had already gone astray &&. sent asunder so early in the day, how pitiful.
Nevertheless, his eyes continued to soften at the man across the Guild Hall &&. his heart thrummed lightening fragments throughout his thorax at how IRIDESCENCE Freed appeared … beneath the dimming light. Gray watched as his nimble digits furled into the soft entanglement of emerald strands ( &&. the way he collected them so deftly, so effortlessly into a high ponytail ), until it revealed the tender flesh that was the back of his neck.
━━ and Gray continued to watch … without realizing that he was being presently encumbered by the realm of the other’s undeniable CHARM.
&&. IT WAS STUPID, because even a beat of contemplation allowed him another moment of greedy perusing– a not so subtle scrutiny at Freed’s currently NEGLECTED profile. Gray unabashedly drank in the artful nooks of his aesthetics —- the pale exposure of his nape, and the way his vibrant locks fanned his shoulders like a settling dust cloud.
He drew in a trembling breath before his attention finally wavered – threatening to sink back into the slouching liquor within his glass. As his caged heart begin to clamber, Gray was spiraling into a realm of endless wondering regarding how LONG it’d been … since he last finds himself losing touch with his ( carefully forged ) self-control.
It was frustrating. Freed was frustrating—– frustrating him in the MOST frustrating way that the Rune Mage wasn’t even aware of it himself. Briefly clutching at the bridge of his nose, Gray banged his head against the wooden surface of the counter as a reddened hue fully manifested his features.
He’s just so… he’s just so goddamn pretty.
—–—– &&. for the love of Mavis, Gray just wanted to COMBUST.*











